The East lands were more funny, since we got perpetual war since turn 30 approx.
I was fighting Ulm because he attacked me with no reason, and then Ermor asked me for help (he was being attacked by Caelum, Abysia, C'tis and Tien'chi). I accepted, since he was a powerful ally.
When Caelum got defeated by Ermor and retreated, she said Tien'chi was the boss of the coalition (in other words, of course). So the big menace was Tien'chi leading everybody to the big nation: Ermor.
So the next turn I sent 15 Sidhe lords to Tien'chi, to 5 different provinces. Every attack was a success (I think he wasn't expecting that).
Nex turn I continued attacking with my raiders, and a few turns later Puntocom said me to attack 2 provinces, so the retreaters of a big war against Tien'chi couldn't survive.
And that was a really great strategy: We take down Tien'chi's army a lot.
But then I had a big big problem I didn't expect. I was attacking Ulm at the same moment with my main army (10 tuathas and 25 sacred units with glamour [I don't remenber their name, but they are Sidhe guys]), but even if Ulm became AI, I couldn't siege Ulm's 800 defense castles with my 30 people army. So I sieged Ulm's 3 castles, this way the IA couldn't annoy me conquering provinces.
And then, with all my problems with Ulm and my attack with Tien'chi, Ryleh and Marignon started attacking me (at that moment I thought they were allied with Tien'chi, but now I'm still not sure about that, maybe they just attacked me). So I was fighting with 4 guys. A Sidhe lord full equiped stomped Marignon, so he wasn't a problem.
But everybody was Mental attacking my sidhes and thuatas, and I started to recruit Sorceresses from an independent province Tien'chi gave me. I build Astral caps, so I had A3 mages, and send them to protect every province I had sidhes.
A lot of mages were feebleminded (I think some of them were ryleh's) and I don't remember the message, but at that moment I knew Tien'chi's god was feebleminded by me. I don't remember if the message was "An enemy mage called [ Name of god] has been diseaded for life" or something like that. But I was sure Tien'chi was without a useful god.
But then Tien'chi started with the Gargoyles... At that moment I couldn't deal with supercombatants with 80 hp with my 15 hp sidhe lords.
He sieged me with 2 gargoyles and a Golem, I think. I was so stupid to think a Frost ring in my pretender was going to protect my pretender from every damage of a Frost brand (it could sound logic, but it doesn't protect) and I lost my pretender and my Mother oak enchantment.
I researched and started to build Axes of Hate to deal with the supercombatants.
I knocked down some golems, some others knocked me.
At this moment I'm fighting Tien'chi with tooth and nail, countering his Communions and slaying every chinese that goes into my lands. But it's not working so good.
I think Tien'chi can't conquer me at the moment, and if C'tis attacks him, Tien'chi can fall down.
Ermor stopped talking to me since a lot of time ago, and I'm almost sure he is sending the turns empty. He didn't even defend himself from Tien'chi's forces since 20 turns ago.
Now Tien'chi controls almost every Ermor province, but he is still beatable.
I can't win, since Eriu isn't a late game Nation, so I don't mind if win finish it.
Also the game is a bit funny, not so boring. I don't have my heart in it (10-15 turns ago I would have said "YES!" to finish the game, but now I'm fine), but this game still has something to offer me. I learned a lot of things this game: countering astral attacks, countering communions, building thugs, and a lot of things. Also I learned that my perfectly scripted mages to cast Storm, Rain, and Storm power (this way Sidhe lords with 2 Air can cast Thunder strike too) don't cast Storm, don't cast Rain, and cast whatever they want. Stupid AI of mages... : (
What are your thoughts about this game? Onlie Karlito, Darkwind and me are veterans of the game... I would want to have here Puntocom, C'tis guy, Scriptwolf and Ryleh first guy, to say what did the game teached to them, but they staled without end.
Anyways, good game guys.